A blog from the team at HqO with resources designed to help landlords optimize their property and create a workspace that tenants will love.

Zach Driscoll

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Technology in commercial real estate and, more specifically, commercial office buildings has been making its presence felt for decades. That is, of course, if you owned, managed, or leased these properties.

A recent study from Colliers International recommends that commercial office owners should, as a baseline, allocate approximately 10% of their rentable square footage to amenities. For those who are trying to attract highly south-after tenants, they should reserve 12% or more.

As demand for office amenities and improved workplace experiences continues to increase, property owners and managers have been forced to dedicate more and more of their portfolio’s space to amenities.

It has been an exciting couple of months for us here at HqO. And as we sat down for our all company, monthly recap meeting last Friday, one thing in particular has us all buzzing: the data from our launch with Jamestown at the Innovation & Design Building.

The rise of technology within the commercial real estate sector has been well documented on this blog and all over relevant publications. Just follow the money: funding in the real estate technology sector swelled to roughly $12.6 billion in 2017 - triple the $4.2 billion figure from 2016.

In 2017, the real estate technology sector raised over $5 billion in funding – more than 150 times than what was raised in 2010. Once a sector largely overlooked by investors, two out of the three most valuable private companies in the United States, WeWork & Airbnb, are products of a booming RE tech space. To understand how technology is affecting the CRE world today, we put together an extensive eBook that dives into the major technology categories emerging in CRE. Click the button below to download:

Theodore Levitt’s “Marketing Myopia” is one of The Harvard Business Review’s best selling articles of all time. There were 35,000 reprints from 1,000 different companies the year after it was first released, and it has been featured in 850,000 reprints over the past 50 years.